Normal couple opens home to traveling cyclists

As Ha Joo-Young ate a breakfast of thin Dutch pancakes with choices of fillings from bacon to strawberries on Saturday morning, the 23-year-old South Korean said, “We are lucky today.”

Ha and his traveling companion, Jo Yong-Ju, 19, had spent the night at the home of Willy Hunter and Rebecca Houtsma in Normal, making the connection through a website for cyclists called “Warm Showers.”

The website describes the “Warm Showers Community” as “a free, worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists.”

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